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UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is a major research enterprise focused on developing wireless sensing systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and societal pursuits. In the same way that the development of the Internet transformed our ability to communicate, the ever decreasing size and cost of computing components is setting the stage for detection, processing, and communication technology to be embedded throughout the physical world and, thereby, fostering both a deeper understanding of the natural and built environment and, ultimately, enhancing our ability to design and control these complex systems.
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National Science Foundation
Cooperative Agreement #CCR-0120778
Title: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
PI Names: Deborah L. Estrin, Michael Hamilton, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Gaurav Sukhatme
Effective Date: August 1, 2002 Expiration Date: July 31, 2012

 

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Donald J. Patterson
  Status Quo: Micro-presence in an always online world

  December 4, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 3551 Boelter Hall - CENS Main Conference Room

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Recent Events

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Karen Kim
  Preparing for Publication: Writing, Reporting Findings, and Dealing with Errors

  November 20, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: BH 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Fei Sha
  Learning Low Dimensional Representations of High Dimensional Data

  November 6, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: BH 4760

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• CENS 7th Annual Research Review

  October 28, 2009 -- 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM

  Location: Covel Commons – Grand Horizon Room

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Andreas Krause
  Optimizing Sensing from Water to the Web

  October 16, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: BH 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Peter Capone-Newton
  Addressing Health Disparities with Participatory and Personal Mobile Sensing

  October 9, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: BH 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Patrick Crutcher
  Spatializing Your Data: A Lesson in the Open-Source GeoStack and GeoDjango for What's Invasive

  October 2, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: BH 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Josh Hyman, Teresa Ko
  Embedded Imagers: Detecting, Localizing and Recognizing Objects and Events in Natural Habitats

  September 25, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Matt Mayernik, Alberto Pepe
  Micro-blogging from the field: capturing contextual information in highly mobile research

  August 28, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jeff Burke
  Urban Sensing as Experience Infrastructure

  August 21, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• Summer@CENS Scholars Final Poster Session

  August 14, 2009 -- 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: CENS Building - 3551 Boelter Hall Courtyard

  Description: This culmination event highlights the work of the Summer@CENS High School and Undergraduate Scholars. Please join us in celebrating their efforts both in research as well as building relationships with our Center and the University community.

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Ryan N. Smith
  AUV Trajectory Design Based on Ocean Model Predictions

  August 7, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Katie Shilton
  Designing the Personal Data Stream: Enabling Participatory Privacy in Mobile Personal Sensing

  July 24, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 3551BH Main Conference Room

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• CS4HS Explorations in Computer Science for High School Teachers

  July 23, 2009, 8:00 AM -- July 24, 2009, 5:00 PM

  Description: CS4HS is a new effort by UCLA, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Washington with additional funding from Google to provide high school (and K-8) teachers with resources for teaching computer science principles to their students in a fun and relevant way. Read More

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Roy Shea
  CENS Technical Seminar Series - Roy Shea

  July 17, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jonathan Friedman and Dorothea Hall, UCLA
  Beyond the Medical X-ray, Non-ionizing Electrostatic Transconduction and its Biomedical Applications

  July 10, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Ryan N. Smith, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, USC
  AUV Trajectory Design Based on Ocean Model Predictions

  June 26, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Prof. Alexandre M. Bayen
  Mobile Millennium: using smartphones to monitor traffic in privacy aware environments

  June 19, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Prof. Andreas Terzis
  Elements of a wireless sensor network architecture

  June 12, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 8500

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• CENS High School Scholars Poster Symposium

  May 29, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: CENS Courtyard, BH 3551

  Description: Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our CENS High School Scholars from Central High School at this end of the year Poster Symposium. Read More

• Lakshman Krishnamurthy
  Carry Small, Live Large

  May 15, 2009 -- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 3400

  Description: CENS Intel Scholars Keynote Read More

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• Latest Biodiscovery at CENS

  05-Nov-09

  The latest biosensor discovery at CENS--squirrels as detectors of leaky irrigation systems.
  
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• CNN.com - A new way of looking at the world

  02-Nov-09

  An emerging set of tools is making it easier than ever to track and compile all sorts of "data" and display it in a way that's relatively easy to understand.
  
  Nathan Yau, a CENS graduate student at UCLA is featured. He founded a Web site, Your Flowing Data, that helps people chart their lives using Twitter. Read More

• CENS SRC URO Scholars Program

  24-Sep-09

  Apply today to become a CENS SRC URO Scholar! CENS is accepting applications for UCLA undergraduates to apply to the 2009-2010 CENS SRC URO Scholars Program. Deadline: October 16, 2009 Read More

• Deborah Estrin awarded 2009 ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award

  11-Sep-09

  Congratulating to CENS's Director, Deborah Estrin for being this year's winner of the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award! Sigmobile is the Association of Computing Machinery's special interest group on wireless and mobile communications.

• Slashdot.org - Your Rights Online: Privacy, Mobile Phones, Ubiquitous Data Collection

  03-Sep-09

  CENS' Katie Shilton's article is featured on slashdot. Read More

• National Geographic - Tracking Alien Species by Phone

  30-Jul-09

  New smart-phone applications may enable the public to help scientists monitor invasive species and collect data in a fraction of the time it normally takes. CENS' Mobile Sensing is featured. Read More

• Live Science - Cell Phones Allow Everyone to Be a Scientist

  04-Jun-09

  Cell phones let you chat with friends, send emails and even guide you to the nearest pizza joint. But now these toys are acquiring more serious roles: They're turning into personal and environmental sensors useful for health and science.
  CENS' Participatory Sensing is featured. Read More

• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - There's a Sensor in Your Pocket

  18-May-09

  Mobile Technologies Enable a New Generation of Citizen Scientists. CENS' Participatory Sensing is featured. Read More

• Nature News - Personal technology: Phoning in data

  22-Apr-09

  Far from being just an accessory, mobile phones are starting to be used to collect data in an increasing number of disciplines. Roberta Kwok looks into their potential.
  
  CENS' Martin Lukac is featured. Read More

• MobileActive.org - Earth Day and Mobile Phones, Part 1: Sensing for a Better World

  21-Apr-09

  If 2009 is the year of the mobile phone for social impact, then Earth Day should mark a special occasion in this regard. More and more organizations and people are discovering how mobile phones can be used for social impact, including how to use mobile tech for environmental protection, sensing, and to leverage just-in-time information to make our movements and actions more environmentally friendly.
  
  CENS Urban Sensing group is featured. Read More

• Wired - 10 Awesome Summer Internships for Science Students

  16-Apr-09

  If you're a college student thinking about becoming a scientist, now is the time to apply for summer internships. Aside from studying hard, the most important thing that you can do for yourself is get some research experience.
  
  The CENS Summer Program is featured. Read More

• San Francisco Chronicle - Program helps kids find their carbon impact

  06-Apr-09

  The Go Green Foundation of San Francisco, with support from Nokia, CENS at UCLA and AT&T, has been testing a groundbreaking project for the past month that allows 25 students at the Urban School in San Francisco to track their transportation habits using GPS-handsets from Nokia over AT&T's network. Read More

• Popular Mechanics - Citizen Science: How Smartphones Can Aid Scientific Research

  30-Mar-09

  Is your smartphone reaching its full potential? You may use your phone to text, Twitter and geo-tag photographs, but your phone can collect data for so much more than your social networks. CENS' work on smartphones is featured in this article from Popular Mechanics. Read More

• Science Cheerleader - Cell phones + user-generated data = citizen science on steroids

  30-Mar-09

  Fascinating combination of cell phones and citizen scientists to do everything from helping joggers chart healthy running courses, to alerting scientists and policy makers to needed environmental policy changes. CENS' Participatory Sensing project is featured in this blog post. Read More

• Discovery - Sustainable: Wide Angle: All the Cool Kids Have Them

  27-Mar-09

  CENS and the PEIR application are featured in a Discovery article discussing the Urban School of San Francisco and its participation in a pilot project organized by the Go Green Foundation. Read More

• UCLA Impact - PEIR in "10 cool UCLA things to see and do on the Web"

  26-Mar-09

  The CENS PEIR program was featured as #9 in this month's e-newsletter. IMPACT is also emailed to 80,000 alumni through the Alumni Association. Read More

• KQED - Tracking Carbon through Your Cell Phone

  09-Mar-09

  (Audio) A group of high school students in San Francisco are using high-tech GPS cell phones running CENS-developed software to track their daily carbon footprint - and to gauge their daily environmental risk. Read More

• The National Academies - CENS Director Deborah Estrin elected to the National Academy of Engineering

  06-Feb-09

  Congratulations Dr. Estrin! Read More

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